Thanx to the reply for disk management and I found out how to 'activate' an external disk drive. I don't know whether djcutler still needs this but anyway, there's a chance that your disk (especially when it's brand new), is not yet formatted yet which happens to my brand new 80GB external hard drive.
You can use Time Machine, the built-in backup feature of your Mac, to automatically back up all of your files, including apps, music, photos, email, documents, and system files. When you have a backup, you can restore files from your backup if the original files are ever deleted from your Mac, or the hard disk (or SSD) in your Mac is erased. Apr 09, 2014 My guess is the external HD is formatted as NTFS which is a PC format. OS X can read a NTFS drive and copy data on it to your iMac but it cannot write to NTFS.
Go to disk management using the specified method or control panel, then there should be a pop-up coming out other than your disk management window. Download free pdf reader for nokia. It is asking you to 'initialize' your disk, go ahead and 'initialize it'.
After that, if format option is not available, go and create a partition for your disk. I forgot how, if I'm not wrong just right click to your disk identified in Disk Management as Disk1 or whatever and you should be able to work your way through like what I did. For my case, it's only after this that the disk is detected in My Computer (along the process you'll get to choose a drive letter for your disk). And for my case again, it is only after this that I can format and use the disk afterwards. I am not a computer savvy as you may noticed but hope this helps. Im sort of having a similar problem.I have an old hard drive from my desktop computer that stopped working.
I decided to upgrade to a new hdd and wanted to use the old drive as an external hd. I have bought a new enclosure for the hd but the computer doesn’t recognize it as a hd. I am using a Maxtor 80gb model: 4d080h4. It came with a Compaq Presario 6000 series.
The enclosure im using is a mad dog megavault 3.5'. The hdd stopped working while still in my desktop and I couldn’t get it to reboot or reinstall windows. When I give the hdd power, it still sounds like its booting up and the comp with the new hd sees it as a usb device but it doesn’t show up in disk management. The external enclosure does work because I have tested it with other drives. I have also tried to format the drive and I get an error that goes like “data error cyclic redundancy check” I have also tried to format it on my Mac and I get a input/output error.
Any ideas on how to get it to work? How do i zip a file folder for an attachment on mac.
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Thanx to the reply for disk management and I found out how to \'activate\' an external disk drive. I don\'t know whether djcutler still needs this but anyway, there\'s a chance that your disk (especially when it\'s brand new), is not yet formatted yet which happens to my brand new 80GB external hard drive.
You can use Time Machine, the built-in backup feature of your Mac, to automatically back up all of your files, including apps, music, photos, email, documents, and system files. When you have a backup, you can restore files from your backup if the original files are ever deleted from your Mac, or the hard disk (or SSD) in your Mac is erased. Apr 09, 2014 My guess is the external HD is formatted as NTFS which is a PC format. OS X can read a NTFS drive and copy data on it to your iMac but it cannot write to NTFS.
Go to disk management using the specified method or control panel, then there should be a pop-up coming out other than your disk management window. Download free pdf reader for nokia. It is asking you to \'initialize\' your disk, go ahead and \'initialize it\'.
After that, if format option is not available, go and create a partition for your disk. I forgot how, if I\'m not wrong just right click to your disk identified in Disk Management as Disk1 or whatever and you should be able to work your way through like what I did. For my case, it\'s only after this that the disk is detected in My Computer (along the process you\'ll get to choose a drive letter for your disk). And for my case again, it is only after this that I can format and use the disk afterwards. I am not a computer savvy as you may noticed but hope this helps. Im sort of having a similar problem.I have an old hard drive from my desktop computer that stopped working.
I decided to upgrade to a new hdd and wanted to use the old drive as an external hd. I have bought a new enclosure for the hd but the computer doesn’t recognize it as a hd. I am using a Maxtor 80gb model: 4d080h4. It came with a Compaq Presario 6000 series.
The enclosure im using is a mad dog megavault 3.5\'. The hdd stopped working while still in my desktop and I couldn’t get it to reboot or reinstall windows. When I give the hdd power, it still sounds like its booting up and the comp with the new hd sees it as a usb device but it doesn’t show up in disk management. The external enclosure does work because I have tested it with other drives. I have also tried to format the drive and I get an error that goes like “data error cyclic redundancy check” I have also tried to format it on my Mac and I get a input/output error.
Any ideas on how to get it to work? How do i zip a file folder for an attachment on mac.
...'>Can External Hard Drive Be Used For Mac And Pc Documents And Files(02.01.2019)Thanx to the reply for disk management and I found out how to \'activate\' an external disk drive. I don\'t know whether djcutler still needs this but anyway, there\'s a chance that your disk (especially when it\'s brand new), is not yet formatted yet which happens to my brand new 80GB external hard drive.
You can use Time Machine, the built-in backup feature of your Mac, to automatically back up all of your files, including apps, music, photos, email, documents, and system files. When you have a backup, you can restore files from your backup if the original files are ever deleted from your Mac, or the hard disk (or SSD) in your Mac is erased. Apr 09, 2014 My guess is the external HD is formatted as NTFS which is a PC format. OS X can read a NTFS drive and copy data on it to your iMac but it cannot write to NTFS.
Go to disk management using the specified method or control panel, then there should be a pop-up coming out other than your disk management window. Download free pdf reader for nokia. It is asking you to \'initialize\' your disk, go ahead and \'initialize it\'.
After that, if format option is not available, go and create a partition for your disk. I forgot how, if I\'m not wrong just right click to your disk identified in Disk Management as Disk1 or whatever and you should be able to work your way through like what I did. For my case, it\'s only after this that the disk is detected in My Computer (along the process you\'ll get to choose a drive letter for your disk). And for my case again, it is only after this that I can format and use the disk afterwards. I am not a computer savvy as you may noticed but hope this helps. Im sort of having a similar problem.I have an old hard drive from my desktop computer that stopped working.
I decided to upgrade to a new hdd and wanted to use the old drive as an external hd. I have bought a new enclosure for the hd but the computer doesn’t recognize it as a hd. I am using a Maxtor 80gb model: 4d080h4. It came with a Compaq Presario 6000 series.
The enclosure im using is a mad dog megavault 3.5\'. The hdd stopped working while still in my desktop and I couldn’t get it to reboot or reinstall windows. When I give the hdd power, it still sounds like its booting up and the comp with the new hd sees it as a usb device but it doesn’t show up in disk management. The external enclosure does work because I have tested it with other drives. I have also tried to format the drive and I get an error that goes like “data error cyclic redundancy check” I have also tried to format it on my Mac and I get a input/output error.
Any ideas on how to get it to work? How do i zip a file folder for an attachment on mac.
...'>Can External Hard Drive Be Used For Mac And Pc Documents And Files(02.01.2019)